Why don't Anatolian Turks have slanted eyes like Cental Asian Turks?

[Anonymous]

Don't they come from the same origin?

[JohnDoe3000]

There were people living in Anatolia before the Turks arrived and those people outnumbered the Turks. The Turks conquered the land and became the new elite, but they intermarried with the existing population until their descendents looked more like those people than the central Asian Turkish ancestors.

[ThisDudeHere]

This.

[Asker]

But aren't Turks genetically Central Asian?

[ThisDudeHere]

Genetically they are now central Asian mixed with the ones that lived in Anatolia before them.

[engin-ear]

Because Ottoman Empire was too big. Different types of people lived together. Each type lived different where. Thats why Anatolian Turks don't have slanted eyes.

[Marsssss]

Actually Turkish means like Slavs, not a race. Because it is a group it have varieties too. In central Asia Turkish people didn't have slanted eyes too. They just have pretty foxy eyes. When they (mostly oguz race) migrated to Anatolia nothing changed too. Slanted eyes is a dominant feature when some them them stayed in middle asia they got invaded by other Asian groups that's why people in middle asia have slanted eyes now.

[freepatron]

my father has :D